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We're having an issue saving and opening forms for users with specific form access. Both "View submissions" and "Edit form" were selected however, when we try to open or save the form we get the following error:

Acrobat could not open file because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged, etc.

See attached screen shot.

Is JotForm having an issue with this or is there an option to fine tune a users options and accessibility?

e. Load the form in the form builder and re-save it without doing any changes.

f. Close the form builder again

g. Clear your forms cache again and:

h. Create the fillable PDF again.

I hope that works. If not, please let us know so we can investigate further.

Lastly, you have added yourself as a sub-account. You are the main account so you don't need to add yourself like that. Please remove that.

Thanks

Answered by
jbell
on August 11, 2015 at 10:53 AM

Thank you for your response. Presby was trouble-shooting for me and after following the steps above, I am still not able to pull up a .pdf. Do you have another suggestion?

Thank you.

JotForm Support

Answered by
Charlie
on August 11, 2015 at 01:29 PM

Hi,

I was able to replicate the problem, it seems like the conversion to fillable PDF form is not working properly on sub account users with shared forms.

Here's a test sub account I have and a test form:

I will need to escalate this to our developers to have it check. We will update you on this thread when this has been resolved.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Answered by
jbell
on September 08, 2015 at 12:52 PM

Hi There,

Patiently waiting and wondering if there is a solution/fix. Thanks.

JotForm Support

Answered by
Charlie
on September 08, 2015 at 01:55 PM

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Upon checking the status of the report, it is still open and has not been resolved yet. But one of our developers is already working on it and has marked this as "Very Important" in the priority list.

We will update you as soon as the problem has been resolved.

Answered by
jbell
on September 15, 2015 at 02:51 PM

Good afternoon,

It has been 5 weeks since the initial request for support was made. Is it possible to have have a report on when this will be resolved? Our process has been interrupted for this time and our annual deadline for our major application is imminent. This fix and information is essential.

Thanks.

JotForm Support

Answered by
Welvin
on September 15, 2015 at 04:29 PM

Our apologies, but the support team cannot give you an exact timeframe on how long it would take for our developers to fix this issue. If there are updates, you should know it in this thread.

I think we'll try to get the PDF for you and see if you can open it. Can you let us know the important forms that will be used? I tried it here and can open it so maybe this method works. Let's try it.

The problem with creating PDF forms from sub user account has now been fixed. Thank you for your patience on this matter.

Answered by
jbell
on October 08, 2015 at 01:34 PM

Thank you.

The location of uploads is not visible. Can this be fixed as well?

JotForm Support

Answered by
Charlie
on October 08, 2015 at 02:38 PM

@jbell

Thank you for updating us.

Regarding the follow up concern you have, I went ahead and opened a separate thread for it so that we can discuss it better. Please refer to this link instead: http://www.jotform.com/answers/678955. We will address it accordingly.